Improvement in corset-steels



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES JORDAN, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

lM PROVEMENT IN CORSET-STEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,984, dated January 8, 1878 application filed August 7, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OHARLEs JORDAN, of Wakefield, in the county of. Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corset A Steels, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a corset-clasp or a pair of corset-steels embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. v

My invention relates to the steel or steels, clasp, or busk directly in front of the corset. These steels or springs lie in the center of the front of the corset,between the natural breasts, over the chest. As such steels are now constructed they lie upon and usually press upon the chest, thus being uncomfortable and in- JllI'lOllS.

This invention consists in providing a steel which bends or curves outward at that portion next the chest, as represented by a in the drawings. Thus the chest is protected and left free.

Another great advantage arising from the convex shape of the steel at ais, that it facilitates the fitting of the dress over the corset. This steel will be used mainly in connection with full-bust corsets, Whether woven or domestic, and its introduction serves to keep the corset well in shape over the chest,

and to fill out the garments worn, so that the CHARLES JORDAN.

Witnesses:

HENRTW. WILLIAMS, B. W. WILLIAMS. 

